People call me ignorant :/ I've worked in gaming for 15 years.I used to work for id software so I'm not computer illiterate. What I was trying to get across was that, despite what the PC elitists may think, the xbox360 handles itself pretty well. It's hardware components are regularly updated through xbox live. If you﻿ look at the graphics of Oblivion compared to Skyrim you will no doubt see a massive graphical improvement. Many think this is due to developers becoming accustomed to the hardware, but it's in fact due to the "Interdynamic uploading, updating, upscaling update" that they dish out on LIVE every so often. Now this may be known in different terms around the internet, but it's function is the same. The xbox that sits under your TV today is just slightly inferior to a GTX 680 and amazingly now the xbox holds 4 gig of RAM!!

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As opposed to popular belief, you don't download RAM. Instead you download a dynamic memory similar to it (ever heard of ROM memories?) which is converted through the serial port into the motherboard. It's like you trick your processor into believing that the downloaded ROM is actually RAM. Works a little slower than actual RAM but still does the job.

Of course, you can only download it once (the page automatically downloads the maximum amount your motherboard supports). The second time you try to download it it's just an animated image and a pop up message. I guess they do this to keep atracting visitors who think they can download more ROM/RAM.

EDIT: Also, don't forget to uninstall the downloaded ROM if you ever want to expand your RAM with some modules, or the motherboard won't recognize it.

Computer Science student, actually. Glad you ask, my project of this semester revolves exactly around that issue. The key here is the Bitweight (usually just BW), i.e: the weight of a bit.

As the computers become more powerful, the bits travel at higher speeds, thus increasing the BW (won't go into deep explanations here, in the end it's just physics). So how do we deal with that? Trying to balance the amount of 0 and 1's on the memory.

Anyway, you shouldn't worry too much about it as it's more of a hypothetical problem right now (one must prepare for the future!). Sorry for the long explanation, got a bit excited. Answering your question, with basic math and assuming yours is a standard laptop (may be a bit heavier if you're using a Mac) a GB weighs about ~0.2 Kg, nothing to worry about.

Common misconception. It's only the 1's that weigh anything; the 0's obviously are weightless. So what you want to do is install games that have a high zero-to-one ratio, that way you maximize your enjoyment for the least weight possible.

It's a bit trickier but definitely possible. You can't just download it. If you try you'll see no difference. The key here is that the space you are downloading it's already taking space itself on your hard drive (obviously).

The key here is to put it on a different unit (USB memories are allowed but are slower), and then assign it to the hdd you want to upgrade. Then you just compress the space (the actual space, the one at the second unit).

It may not be straightforward, but with this you successfully get like the 50% of the space you downloaded (depending on the compresion rate). I won't tell you where to download it, as it breaks the user license agreement of your hardware (no way that would be legal) and it's against this subreddit's rules, but if you google it up you'll find it easily.

Seriously, everyone knows that if a file goes over 1024 MB it rolls over to 0. So if you download a 1025 MB file, it saves to your HDD as 1 MB. But you can reformat the space and free up 1000 MB (they only call it 1024 because of marketing).

Just make sure to defrag once per every 5 gigs you add, more or less, or your pagefiles will corrupt.

Specifically this Macbook, it comes with 4gb of RAM, which is two more gigabytes than your current model. It also comes with a sleek case. Although it has a few less processors than your current desktop, you get more RAM to make up for it. Also, we're running a special now where you get a dildo modeled after Steve Jobs' penis so you can fuck yourself whenever you want. It's called iFuckedUp.

Only $4,999, the title to your car, and your first and second born child. Oh, you only have one child? Well, we can wait.

"And don't forget this HDMI cable - well of course it's not cheap, you don't want cheap video coming out of your new laptop, do you?

Here, take a look... that's right - gold plated. GOLD. You should feel lucky they even make these, with the cost of gold today.

What? Copper, a better conductor? Pssh. I don't know who told you that, but look: it's gold. NASA uses these exact same cables in the Mars Rover.

Are you going to be using this in public? Well, you're gonna want some headphones.

You already have headphones? I mean, if you don't care about sound quality, that's cool and all, but take a look at these. Yep, engineered by Dr. Dre himself.

So you're going to want the extended warranty, right? Sure, it's optional, but it's a great deal considering the sensitive equipment you've got there. You wouldn't drive a car without insurance, would you?

As long as the product doesn't get stolen, lost, broken, damaged by water or electricity, or by regular wear and tear or manufacturing defects, you're 100% covered.

That's right - just $199. Think how much more it would cost to replace all this stuff if you download a virus to your new headphones!

Let's ring you up right - oh man I almost forgot - who's your cell phone carrier? Verizon? Wow, that's a shame, my cousin has Verizon so I know how bad you must be hurting. Come take a look over here..."

Seriously. The day I learned about 3D printers that can print shit, I realized that information just wants to be free, and since everything in life is just 1's and 0's, obviously you can download anything---even downloading, itself.

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Do any of you guys know about the unreal 3 engine demo? This is a game called Samaritan: Twitch. It's running on the Unreal 3 engine. This engine will be fully supported by the xbox 360﻿ and ps3. Some high end gaming rigs might be able to run this but you'll need to update your RAM and graphics cards to something on par with the 360, since the 360 runs on the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 with 10gb of RAM Anyway, It looks amazing. Can't wait.﻿>

Well, reddit, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but actually what this guy is bragging with - namely hardware modifications through software updates - is actually already technically possible and also in wide use. The corresponding integrated circuits are called FPGAs (Field-programmable gate array) and a very commonly used to implement custom chip designs after the chips have been shipped.

Furthermore, there is a design developed by IBM and used in the XBox 360 called eFuses which are used in the XBox 360 to prevent downgrades after the system software has been upgraded. With eFuses, the software actually irreversibly physically changes the hardware by "blowing" tiny on-die fuses with an overcurrent in the integrated circuits.

And, last but not least, every flash memory chip out there works by software modifying the hardware to store 0s and 1s in the non-volatile memory cells. Since these modifications imply destroying or rebuilding the gate of the Field-effect transistors of every memory cell in the chip, flash chips will necessarily degrade over time thus they get damaged by software.

Oh, almost forgot. CPUs have had so-called Microcode updates for quite some years now. These updates are issued by Intel and AMD to be integrated by BIOS vendors to fix hardware flaws with these software updates for the CPUs. I think even the good old Pentium 1 featured these ;).

So, yeah, software can actually improve and change hardware, even though this guy probably didn't really know this and just meant to troll.

Source: I am a physicist with a strong background in solid-state semiconductor physics (worked in a clean room with semiconductors for a year).

While what you say is true, no one uses FPGA's to actually be programmable general purpose computing units, especially in consumer devices. The economics of it are absolutely terrible compared to an ASIC at the volume that consoles sell at. Power and silicon area are much lower for an ASIC.

If you were designing an FPGA into your product, you wouldn't want to waste your money with speccing out an oversized and underclocked one just so you can upgrade it in the future, because that's just wasting money.

The economics of it are absolutely terrible compared to an ASIC at the volume that consoles sell at. Power and silicon area are much lower for an ASIC.

Correct. FPGAs are actually more popular on low-volume chip designs like they are found in new hardware extensions for the Amiga or C64 (I am thinking of a guy named Jens Schoenfeld who does a lot of these designs).

If you were designing an FPGA into your product, you wouldn't want to waste your money with speccing out an oversized and underclocked one just so you can upgrade it in the future, because that's just wasting money.

I agree. I just meant to say that it's technically not completely impossible as compared to what probably most people here think ;).

Fuck you guys. Your just knocking on the 360 because of you're ignoranse. My XBOX gets updated all the new with new graphics chips and rams.

Think about it, You're PC mite get like 32 or at most 64 bits of data blocks per minute. The PS2 gets like 16 fcuking colours! My 360 after the latest update gets over 2,000,000 bites of memory! Beat that you motherfucking mother fuckers!!

I work at Microsorfts "MS Windows" agency and I personally wrote the programming code for Window 8. And let me tell you when its release the XBOX 306 will have ten fucking times the disc space and the dip switches will be upgraded so that the battery life on wireless controllers will last 17 years on a single fucking charge.

I also work at Apples "Mackintosh" department and have wrote the C+ code for it to. On wekends I work at Somy and help them build the PS3 by adding XBOX compornents to it and they pay me like 8 fucking figures so shut the fuck up or I will fuck you up I'm like 9 feet tall and could kick your bitch as! Sry dont mean to scare u but u need to fucking shut up or Ill order my FVI and CIA friends to burn down ur car! ;P |>733&#x0R

look as a console gamer I know PC is better (but holy shit is it expensive) but I still like playing xbox most of my friends have it so why not plus im not a big fan of the pc comunity (yes I know xbox is full of kids) sometimes I just wanna finish a game without being reminded about how I should kill myself because im not part of the master race I would rather listen to a ten year old call me a fag, but this is an opion and im sorry if you disagree, anyways yeah I hope he is a troll